How do you and your child overcome the unexpected challenges of problematic vision and eyeglasses? WSJ’s Ellen Byron and Tanya Rivero discuss. Photo: Stuart Mullenberg for The Wall Street Journal

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... Children's vision problems are detected at younger ages than ever but parents and their young children where Isis can face some unexpected challenges ... including lots of attention from strangers to think small spectacles are cute ... here with more about children and classes is doubly SJ reporter Alan Byron Allen ... things so much for joining us ... at What HQ children get screened for vision problems because of the just my imagination but it seems mean more preschoolers are wearing glasses these days it's about one and twenty preschoolers have a vision problem according to a study I phone but ... aam vision screen actually happens the beginning and for newborns ... are examines almost immediately for any kind of ... cataracts or other or get problems with the high and then that ... most could well be the well child checkups screen continues to tell the child is ... old enough to be able to articulate what they conceal and I attacked this screening process getting better is that what we do see market the US the reason there's more awareness also among parents to ... about what what they can actually help their child with the Constitution and the doctor say earlier these problems are diagnosed the better yet one doctor described the young Greens is almost like cement and is gradually heartening to the earlier you can tackle some of these problems ... on the better chance you have to improve vision ... as they mature and the fall I know that there a lots of kids who love their classes but other kids who maybe have problems when their classes another all kinds of support groups that are popping up rate yes a carries who have very young children in on classes have ... started businesses and support groups one I found was little for ice and it's ... a place where thousands of parents tree ... tips and supports ... and ideas about ... looking for ways to make ... a clear on where the assets and they want to see other kids wearing class that they wanna see their cartoon characters that they'll outweighing glass and on that day yes two moms actually started a national program called the great classes played it happens to me ... and it's meant for kids across the country ... to get together with other kids who wear glasses ... in just in Chile it especially are now what are the adorable factor is that the low boy my son's class wears glasses is the key thing in the world is that some parents don't want to hear that from strangers I talk to so many parents who say they can't go to the grocery store even once without being stopped by a stranger who might have something nice to say that often means misunderstandings about why kids even need glasses or are they trying to just make the kids keyboard fashionable and where the classes ... and so there's a lot of public education that needs to happen about how yes ... you can catch a vision problems at a very young age ... and actually make a difference absolutely and look at the expense of others because children classes are surprisingly back then and then break them all the time ... I learned that kids classes actually cost just as much as an adult incredible and its popular will put them through a lot more rigor than most adults well ... it can be thousands of dollars and credible and selling what it had tears handling the expense I talk to one mom who says that she gets she spent almost seven thousand dollars so far in a few years and glasses ... by the first time you wore them it was like he saw her face close